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IN HB1014

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/9/2012

Primary Sponsor

Steven Davisson

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Origin

House of Representatives

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and students in these fields to refuse to dispense drugs or medical devices they believe would be used to cause an abortion, destroy an unborn child, or cause death through assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing

  • Prohibits civil damage claims against refusing health care professionals, their employers, or their facilities based on such refusal

  • Prohibits disciplinary, recriminatory, or discriminatory action against health care professionals who refuse to dispense under these circumstances

  • Creates the crime of "health care professional discrimination" as a Class A misdemeanor for employers who knowingly take adverse action against refusing employees, elevated to a Class D felony for subsequent offenses

  • Authorizes licensing boards to impose additional fines up to $5,000 for first offenses and $10,000 for subsequent offenses against employers convicted of health care professional discrimination

Legislative Description

Health care professionals conscience clause.

Last Action

First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy

1/9/2012

Full Bill Text

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